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Added on the 18/01/2022 18:00:04 - Copyright : Euronews EN
US Olympic athlete Red Gerard became the youngest snowboarder ever to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics last weekend. Gerard was at the bottom of the table heading into the third and final trial, when he landed a clean run that pulled him straight up to the top spot on the podium. This was the first gold medal for the US delegation in the Pyeongchang Olympics.
As Olympic athletes were beginning their second official competition day in the 2018 Pyeongchang Games on Sunday, Korean humanoid robot skiers were still warming up at Welli Hill Park ski resort in Dunnae for a different competition - a slalom tournament. On the sidelines of the main human Olympics, the Korean government has organised Ski Robot Challenge, the world's first ever ski tournament for self-operational humanoid robots. The robots are to battle it out in the slalom discipline on Monday.
Akwasi Frimpong, the first ever skeleton racer from Ghana, spoke about his preparations for the Winter Olympics and how he hopes he can inspire a generation back home during an interview outside the Pyeongchang Olympic Village on Saturday. During the interview, Frimpong also said that this was the time to fight misconceptions about Africa, and that this period of momentum with so many teams hailing from the continent and beyond could inspire the next generation to be among the best. The 31-year old will be competing on February 15 and 16.
With creepy skeletal hands sticking out of the fence, occult statues making strange hand gestures, and demons guarding the roof, a spooky home in the Belarusian town of Ratomka wreaks of evil. The house belongs to a businessman based in the Belarussian city of Vitebsk who went through a nasty divorce and started decorating the property with all the satanic trappings.
Famed Tarot card reader Antonio Vazquez - better known as El Brujo Mayor, or the Grand Warlock in Spanish - has forecast that there will be no war between North Korea and the United States during his annual predictions in Mexico City on Thursday. With his long white beard and hair, Vasquez has become a celebrity in Mexico with his predictions which have not always proved to be flawless – in 2016, he predicted Trump would lose the Republican primary elections.
When Eileen Margaret Elmes was given a box of Pascall's Little Red Riding Hood Chocolate Novelties as a Christmas present more than 100 years ago, she simply could not bring herself to eat them. Elmes kept her nursery-rhyme themed box with her until she passed away at the age of 99 in 2007, and the box then made its way to Hansons Auctioneers and Valuers, where it was revealed to the public for the first time in nearly the same condition as a century ago. Inside sit four chocolate figures on a bed of shredded paper, including Little Red Riding Hood, a baby in a cradle, a man in a blue sailor suit and a lady in a summer dress.